POLL: Most Surprising BO run of 2017.

[aabattery]

Coco run in China deserves a shout out as well. I didn't even think it would be released there, let alone make ~180M.

 

Lots of things in China surprised me actually. I don't follow it too much, but stuff like Wolf Warrior 2 making over 800M definitely surprised the shit outta me.

[FantasticBeasts]

Wolf Warriors 2 makes me confident that we will have the first billi grosser from China pretty soon.

[Arlborn]

9 hours ago, CoolioD1 said:

get out but also wonder's gross was an impressive surprise because i'm not sure it's a real movie.

What I wonder the most about Wonder is how the hell that made so much money in Brazil?! I literally never heard even one person around me commenting on this film, I saw absolutely no marketing for it, nada. Just, how?!

 

I guess Brazil does have a recent story with these kind of films; Me Before You did make 17 millions over here(second biggest foreign market after Germany(?) with 20M) but come on, biggest foreign market with 12M? Wow, I did not expect that.

 

Edited January 5, 2018 by Arlborn

[FantasticBeasts]

Get Out won!

Congrats for the deserved win in such a great year.

[That One Girl]

The Greatest Showman gets my vote now.

[filmlover]

Yeah, The Greatest Showman takes this now. Heck, you could argue it's the most surprising run (at least after its opening weekend) since My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

[FantasticBeasts]

1 minute ago, That One Guy said:

The Greatest Showman gets my vote now.

What a year. I mean really there are so many worthy BO stories.......

 

P.S I still do not believe The Greatest Showman is more surprising than Get Out or even IT.

[FantasticBeasts]

Well I am adding it

[MovieMan89]

TGS is definitely the most surprising now. Everyone was calling for a huge bomb pre-release, and it even seemed like we were all right at first. No one could have ever predicted its run in the slightest. Most impressive is really hard to nail down. On one hand, TGS is going to end up with an absurd multi we haven't seen for a non-limited release since like the 80's, but on the other hand Jumanji is going to have a multi around half of TGS but with twice the gross. So both are kind of equally impressive. Then of course IT had admissions no horror film has come close to since 20 years ago. Though outside of that OW, its run isn't particularly impressive and Jumanji is going to fly past its total gross. So I'd go with either Jumanji or TGS. Both equally impressive in different ways. 

[aabattery]

1 minute ago, MovieMan89 said:

TGS is definitely the most surprising now. Everyone was calling for a huge bomb pre-release, and it even seemed like we were all right at first. No one could have ever predicted its run in the slightest. Most impressive is really hard to nail down. On one hand, TGS is going to end up with an absurd multi we haven't seen for a non-limited release since like the 80's, but on the other hand Jumanji is going to have a multi around half of TGS but with twice the gross. So both are kind of equally impressive. Then of course IT had admissions no horror film has come close to since 20 years ago. Though outside of that OW, its run isn't particularly impressive and Jumanji is going to fly past its total gross. So I'd go with either Jumanji or TGS. Both equally impressive in different ways. 

 

*since the 90's.

[MovieMan89]

1 minute ago, aabattery said:

 

*since the 90's.

If TGS hits 20x, then I'm pretty sure there is no wide release to do that since the 80's besides Titanic. If it goes over Titanic's 21x multi, then it's a multi we haven't seen since the 80's. 

[NCsoft]

Jumanji or TGS

The others are not at that level of surprise. The people who found Wonder Woman's run most surprising, did they all predict Jumanji to easily out-gross Wonder Woman worldwide? 

[Ethan Hunt]

Gotta change my vote to Jumanji at this point like holy fuck

[That One Girl]

Year ain't over until it's over.

 

Honestly, it's kind of amazing that an R rated Stephen King horror adaptation making $300M domestically is only #4 on my list of surprises

Edited January 27, 2018 by That One Guy

[forg]

The Greatest Showman because all of the other movies on this list had good to great opening, this one didn't plus the so-so to bad reviews, who would have thought it would have this kind of legs and redeem itself big time

[Valonqar]

Get Out should win and will win. Others did great too but c'mon, Get Out should win by a landslide. 

[Avatree]

Changed my vote to Greatest Showman. not many movies can go from flop opening to certified smash hit by the end of their run.

 

On 1/27/2018 at 12:26 AM, MovieMan89 said:

If TGS hits 20x, then I'm pretty sure there is no wide release to do that since the 80's besides Titanic. If it goes over Titanic's 21x multi, then it's a multi we haven't seen since the 80's. 

It's an amazing run but if you're trying to compare it numerically then bear in mind it opened on a wednesday so not quite a fair comparison to a friday opener. 

[Joel M]

Also changed my vote to Greatest Showman but it's a tie with Jumanji. Even if they're start dropping more than 15% and 30% any weekend now their multipliers will be out of this world.

[Mrwick]

if we are talking US then Jumanji easily. It went up against TLJ and will end up with a better multiplier than Avatar. Nothing is more surprising this year, not even get out.

[Captain Craig]

I didn't change my vote, I just voted Greatest Showman

 

It - while its total is impressive and surpassed my expectations it having success wasn't a surprise

Wonder Woman - I had it pegged as a hit, not shocked

Get Out - some little horror film always manages to to punch over its weight class + 99% RT score was going to help cause we live in a "I want to be included" society that takes the 'popular' opinion side of the moment. That's RT in this case currently.

BatB - why is that even listed? Its success was never in doubt

Wonder - while it did way better than imagined it also rocked an 85% RT + Julia Roberts. Come on.

All the films with 0 votes just shows they shouldn't be on the list anyway.

 

The Greatest Showman had an OW that had the trades pegging flop. It did so in the midst of a horrid 54% RT score. Also having to combat the SJW whining about the lack of Barnum's portrayal + Hugh Jackman outside of playing Wolverine doesn't have a lot of box office proven clout. Rising above all this makes it the best and biggest surprise.